1) Yesterday, Astros 2B Jose Altuve set the Astros single season record for hits above the league average and became the 10th player in Astros history with 100+ career hits above the league average. (Complete Baseball Encyclopedia)

3) Yesterday, Mark Teixeira reached 20 HR for the 11th time, which is tied for 4th among switch hitters. (Complete Baseball Encyclopedia) Teixeira is 10 HR above the league average in 2014 and his 9 years with 20+ HR & 10+ above the league average is 4th among switch hitters. (Complete Baseball Encyclopedia) This was the latest in a non strike shortened year that the Yankees have had their 1st 20 HR hitter since 1992 (Matt Nokes, 9/6). (MLB.com)

5) Yesterday, Brewers CF Carlos Gomez became the 3rd player in team history to have back to back years with 20+ HR and 20+ SB and the 3rd player to have 2 such years in his career. (Complete Baseball Encyclopedia)

6) Yesterday, Blue Jays RF Jose Bautista became the 4th player in Blue Jays history with 500+ career BB and he is 2nd vs. the league average. (Complete Baseball Encyclopedia) Bautista’s 47 BB above the league average in 2014 is 9th in team history. (Complete Baseball Encyclopedia)

7) Yesterday, the Nationals beat the Pirates, to win their season series, 4-3. It was the 1st time in Nationals history (since the move) that they fell behind 0-3 in a 7 game season series and came back to win it. (Nationals team notes)

8) Yesterday, in the 1st game of their doubleheader against the Rockies, Reds P Aroldis Chapman became the 1st pitcher to face 4 batters and walk all of them since 2002 (Miguel Asencio, Royals vs. White Sox, 4/6, MLB debut) and joined Johnny Vander Meer (6/16/41, vs. Giants) as the only pitchers in Reds history to do it. (ESPN Stats & Information, playindex)

9) The Royals are 20-5 in their last 25 games, which is their best 25 game stretch since 1991. (Elias) Now that the Royals have done it, the only team in the majors that hasn’t had a 20-5 (or better) stretch in the past 20 years is the Pirates (1983). (Elias)

10) On Friday/yesterday, the White Sox scored 5+ runs in the 1st inning against the Blue Jays (6 on Friday, 2 yesterday) for the 1st time in the same series since 1979 (vs. Angels). (Elias) The White Sox have 7 RCAA in 2014, after having a negative figure for the past 7 years. If they can maintain their positive figure, they will end the 3rd longest negative RCAA streak in team history. (Complete Baseball Encyclopedia)

11) Yesterday, Rockies RF Michael Cuddyer hit for the cycle during the nightcap of their doubleheader with the Reds. Cuddyer became the 3rd player to hit for the cycle in both leagues (5/22/09, with Twins), joining Bob Watson (1977 Astros, 1979 Red Sox) and John Olerud (1997 Mets, 2001 Mariners). (MLB.com) All 12 of the cycles the Rockies have been involved in (7 for, 5 against) have been in Coors Field. (MLB.com)

13) Tigers LF Rajai Davis’s 30 SB season breaks the Tigers streak of 10 consecutive years without a player with 30+ SB, which was the 4th time the Tigers have had a 10+ year streak. (Complete Baseball Encyclopedia) The Tigers’s just ended streak is tied for the 3rd longest streak in the majors since 2000 and had been tied, with the Cardinals, for the longest such current streak in the majors. (Complete Baseball Encyclopedia)

14) Yesterday, Cubs SS Starlin Castro became the 4th SS in Cubs history with 50+ career HR. (Complete Baseball Encyclopedia) This is Castro’s 4th consecutive year with 10+ HR and the 1st time that he’s been above league average in such a season (1). If finishes the season below league average, he will tie the team record for most consecutive years with 10+ HR & a HR total below the league average. (Complete Baseball Encyclopedia)

16) Orioles RF Nick Markakis has 10+ HR (10) and is below league average in HR (3 below) for the 6th consecutive year, with is tied for the 2nd longest streak in history. (Complete Baseball Encyclopedia)

17) On Saturday, the A’s lost sole possession of 1st place (virtual tie with Angels), after having it for 106 consecutive days (since April 28). That is the 5th longest such streak in Oakland history and the longest since the 1988 American League Champions (final 164 days of the season). (A’s team notes)

18) On Friday-Saturday, the Mets won back to back games, while getting 4 or less hits in each of them, for the 4th time in team history (1976, twice; 1989). (Mets team notes)